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Within Our Control: Improving the Regulation of Business-Indigenous Peoples’ Relationships

From trade agreements to tax reductions and regulatory streamlining, our major trading partners have us on the competitive hot seat. Our attractiveness as a place in which to invest is slipping due to our relatively high and complex taxes, compounded by a regulatory environment that is unpredictable.

We have to be prepared to make changes to ensure businesses remain competitive and Canada remains an attractive place to invest, start a company and create the jobs upon which our economic and social well-being depend.

In this report, we focus on a relatively narrow yet critical area of federal regulation: the relationships between businesses and Indigenous peoples. We can no longer afford to have arcane laws and regulations holding Indigenous peoples and businesses back.

Death by 130,000 Cuts: Improving Canada’s Regulatory Competitiveness

Canada’s regulatory system is a mix of complex, overlapping rules from all levels of government that has created a costly and uncertain environment to run a business. Increasing compliance costs and inefficient and unpredictable regulatory processes negatively impact business productivity, innovation and ultimately Canada’s economic growth. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s new report, Death by 130,000 Cuts: Improving Canada’s Regulatory Competitiveness outlines how the federal regulatory environment is failing Canada’s economy and how elected officials, regulators and businesses can work together to fix it.

In Discussion: Death by 130,000 Cuts: Improving Canada’s Regulatory Competitiveness

Perrin Beatty, President & CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Pierre Petelle, President & CEO of CropLife Canada discuss Canada’s regulatory competitiveness and opportunities in the plant sciences industry. Visit RegulateSmarter.ca for more information.

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Many regulatory frameworks are overly prescriptive, outdated and not equipped to deal with or incentivize innovative business activity.

Recommendations

RecommendationsIn Detail

1

Immediately convene a government-business regulatory competitiveness working group. The working group would develop recommendations for the federal government to measure and reduce cumulative regulatory burden. It would also develop recommendations for governments to ensure a consistent application of regulatory guidelines and best practices by regulators.

2

Give regulators economic growth and competitiveness mandates to ensure that economic impacts are given appropriate consideration while preserving necessary protections.

3

Increase federal leadership in eliminating interprovincial regulatory barriers to trade through clear goals, timelines and accountability as part of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement.

4

Validate the quality and consistency of regulatory cost-benefit analyses from departments and agencies before regulatory proposals are submitted for Cabinet approval.

5

Fix regulatory consultations through earlier engagement with stakeholders while ensuring processes are transparent and evidence-based. Project-based public consultations should be time-limited and focused on projects, not outside policy issues.

6

Make prescriptive legacy regulatory frameworks more flexible and adaptable by moving to risk- or outcome-based regulations where appropriate.

7

Increase regulatory alignment with Canada’s trading partners by integrating regulatory cooperation into free trade agreements and design new regulations with alignment by default where it is in Canada’s economic interest to do so.

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